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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

HAPPY FALL!

I bought this unique paper made out of real wood from McMahon Five Designs.And I’ve been meaning to make a project using it but I could not think of a theme where the wood paper would make all the difference. Then it hit me! I will do a Fall Theme.

Here is a photo of the card. Just click on the photos to get a closer view. Below the photos are all the details of how I made the card. And supplies used purchased from Cutters Creekto get the final look.

The card base is Neenah Classic Crest Cream 80#. The top layer of wood paper covers the entire front. Then I used another layer of wood paper about two-thirds of the card front. I embossed it using aCuttlebug Embossing folder(Leafy Branch A2) and my Craftwell eBosser.Then I used Forest Moss Distress Ink padto color the wood embossed paper. I used a large leaf stamp and stamped three leaves on more of the wood paper. I used two shades ofDistress Ink pads(Pine Needles and Spiced Marmalade) and distressed the leaves. Now here is the best part. I wanted to use a cursive style font for the sentiment (Happy Fall). I chose two different ones. And used both of them. I had no clue if my CricutExpression was going to cut the letters out using the wood paper because the font was curly on the ends of each letter. Well to my surprise and only making one mistake (human error) it cut the letters out of the wood paper perfectly. I removed the letters and distressed them using Spiced Marmalade Distressed ink pad.

The inside of the card is also decorated with wood paper using my Classic ScallopedCircles Large (6 dies) by SpellbindersNestabilities and theCraftwell eBosser.They cut out perfectly using the prescribed sandwich as indicated in the manual. The inside gives the illusion that there are three scalloped circles. But the top portion was made using two different size scallop circles to get a scallop frame/border. I also distressed the edges with Orange Marmalade and Pine Needles. Added some Orange PeelSticklesto the scallops. I left the center in the natural wood color for stamping the sentiment.

10 comments:

Hi Fran this a great card - I never thought you could emboss the wood paper - I must try it :-), and i would never have thought to ink it either - I must be a bit slow ;-).Good to see you here again.BlessingsMaxine

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I am 70 years old and married to my best friend . I have 4 grandsons 20, 16,10, 7). I'm retired and thats when my paper crafting days began. I began using my computer as my main tool to make paper crafts. I love drawing my own templates for gift bags and boxes. In 2008 I bought a Cricut die cutter and became hooked. Then I started making my own greeting cards and now most of my crafting time goes to making cards. I never dreamed that I would love something as much as I love making cards. Now I own a Brother Scan 'N Cut cutting machine and it is amazing. I love how it cuts the most intricate of cuts. Crafting just became more fun!